Monthly Archives: April 2018
I love weather that isn’t boring. I love weather that keeps me exciting and wondering. One thing I love about the weather here, it’s never boring, ever. Especially in the Spring.Unexpected Writing
Yesterday I spent the day writing and putting together a book I didn’t plan on writing. Due to some things said during the Women’s Retreat I attended on Saturday, I began to think about a journal focused on some of the things about which women in my group talked.
I have a major conference coming up in four weeks. I don’t have time for a new project. My list
of things to do for the conference is so long, I don’t think I can complete it.
Despite what I have planned, the Lord has a way of making thing difficult if I don’t follow through with what He has planned. When I got up yesterday morning, no matter how hard I tried, I could not focus about anything I was planning to do until I completed the journal. Today’s picture was used for the cover.
Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, I’m announcing a new book will be posted later this week on my author’s page. I’m doing all the publishing myself, so for right now it can only be purchased from me.
I feel I’m doing things backwards because I’m still working on a way for payments to be made on this website, so for the time being, use my contact page to request a book and we will work out the payment.
Catalogue shopping
This week, after some procrastination, I had to get my act together and figure out what to give fellow volunteers as gifts as the end of the school year approaches. Too tired to force myself to go shopping and eyes burning from looking at my computer screen, I turned to catalogues.
What frustrates me about both paper catalogues and computer shopping is I always wonder if items will be as wonderful as they look in the pictures. In some areas I have trust issues and believing advertising is one such area.
Paging through the two catalogues I have (since I obviously get so many of them), took quite a while between dozing off. Again, I faced a dilemma. With the diversity of personalities, what would be the right gift. Since I’m being lazy right now, I didn’t want to figure out different gifts for different people. In addition to the lazy factor, is the time factor. I need to get this done to be sure I will receive them in time.
I finally found a gift for which I wouldn’t have to spend too much and I thought everyone would like. Although I’d like to spend more, since I plan on giving to at least eleven other volunteers I must set limits.
I got on the computer and placed the order. Now all I need to do is watch for it to arrive and pray I don’t have to go shopping at the last minute.
Conference Musing
I’ve never forgotten when I heard Jeff Gerke say “The only writing rule a writer can’t break is ‘don’t break faith with your reader.’ But if you break a rule, break it well.” The quote might not be exact because it has been a few years, but it is close. I thought of Jeff while at the Write In The Springs conference last Saturday.
In class after class the rule “Don’t use the same noun or verb or phrase in proximity to itself.” has been drilled and drilled and drilled into my brain.
Margie Lawson, our presenter for Write In The Springs, demonstrated several ways to use words or phrases respectively to better touch our readers’ emotions. And not just repeat one or twice, but three, four, or five times. Experimenting with these techniques during the conference was fun. Coming home, looking at my WIP, and playing with the different ways we learned was not only fun, but greatly improved my WIP.
Hurray for breaking the rules!!!!!
It’s Spring Baseball
I made a mistake and forgot to publish this last week, so I’m publishing it this week.
The 2018 Baseball Season is just a week old. The Colorado Rockies have been on the road in Arizona and San Diego for the week and has a record of four wins and three losses.
Those of us in Colorado have been looking forward to the home opener. A sold-out crowd of more than 50,000 fans have tickets to the game including myself and my husband. At the game last year, the temperature was over 70 degrees.
The weather has been good most of the week. Today it was in the sixties. Tomorrow, at first pitch, the predicted weather will be 35 degrees with snow falling. Along with the snow, the temperature will fall to about 20 by the end of the game. In addition, the accompanying wind will create a wind chill of ten to fifteen degrees lower than actual temp.
Most fans still plan to attend with plenty of cold weather gear. In 25 years of existence, the Rockies have never canceled a home opener and do hold the record for the coldest home opener.
The big question is will they set a new record this year or will they have their first postponed home opener? Since this is published a week late, I’ll tell you they did play the home opener game. Unfortunately they lost. We got to Coors Field early for the opening day festivities and then the game was delayed due to weather. The temperture at first pitch was 27 degrees. We didn’t stay for the whole game because after being at the ball field four and a half hours in the cold, I wimped out and said “Let’s go home.”